#tea hardware

Teforia has raised $12 million in a Series A round of venture funding to take its smart kitchen appliances mainstream. The company’s flagship product is an internet connected tea infuser that can brew teas from the company’s own line of pre-packed “Sips,” or from loose leaf teas that customers pack into the machine’s “infusion globe” on their own. The device can be controlled by the Teforia mobile app which lets users create, share and store recipes for what they find is the perfect brew. Or it can be run manually when a user is brewing tea from the company’s Sips. Prior to starting Teforia (pronounced “tay-foria”) founder and CEO Allen Han was best known as the designer of the XBOX.